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• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  need to say "How's the weather?" or "What time is it?" or "My grandmother ... ! Unbelievable! And we could still be in it if we manage to beat Ghana. My ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  , and I figure if it's appropriate for him to wear it, it's okay for me to blog it. On Saturday, I went with some friends to Franklin Park, in ... Crossing, where we switched to the Orange Line and took it until the end.) We

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  What Was in the Briefcase. No luck. My best guess is still that it had ... avoiding disappointment is to recalibrate your perspective using irrelevant ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown ... decided to keep it for this month. Except for getting food caught in it, it ... Wars movies they were going to watch on a given night. Which, I mean, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To get from East Campus to LaVerde's Market, you enter Building 66, pass ... 'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  ," but its colloquial name is far more well known���the "Brass Rat." The ... . Yes, the ring is known as the Brass Rat. Why? Because it is made of gold ... factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  and commit it to memory. This is for a couple of reasons. First, you ... nothing at all. It was fifth grade science class. Each student had to design ... medicine was supposed to do, but I remember that I put it in one of those

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  accelerator, Robbie Baldwin receives the power to reflect kinetic energy. His ... of music, and I’d blog all the time, I thought. But this is hard. It’s ... difficult to get out of it. We are literally fighting an algorithm designed to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  , it is coming back with a vengeance! Currently, the plan is to do an ... ] Recruitment - Part 1 The first major step to start Next Haunt is to recruit exec ... , it wasn’t hard to get puzzle team or the art director, as both the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  but it is progress! And I'm especially happy I was able to maintain a ... press is still not where it needs to be but we're seeing improvement so ... much a deep dive. It is not enough to say that something is fun

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... , emphasizing a key point: “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t.” Despite the ... school...” “You have to buy books from street vendors. And then they

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  summarize it in a manner that is "understandable to everyone." Anyway, all ... indeed write a posthumous entry if I had to. This is the number one song ... about Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope is most appealing to a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  , that can only spill that which in It is Contain'd. There's more to say ... .P. Licks, but it was too hot to walk across the river last night. Anyway, I ... tried it." I said. "And, oh, nor will I ever, because I'm not going to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  it! So I`ll share what`s on my mind. I guess this is a book report ... `things’ is often subject to diminishing returns, the world of ideas is not ... water (give it a negative charge) and channel it through magnets to propel

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  photo. My only excuse is that it is really hard to take a proper photo ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my ... . This is an example of the space relating heavily to the work. The wall

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... classes on [annotation note="my year is allowed take up to 4 classes of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  hours to the Internet - aka procrastination. But is it me or are we all ... to?  - Procrastinating.  I don't blame us. The Internet these days is ... dashboard (Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform by the way). Usually it'd look

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  add, maybe this is how it is. maybe it is not possible for anyone to ... , although i do take, it is taking that you need to survive. i don't know. i ... exercise our creative muscles a bit and it came up that we both like to write

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  GIRs. This is usually a good thing. If you don't have so many GIRs to ... --however, remember that you're going to be taking it with mostly sophomores (and ... you don't need to take. So, here's how it goes. Physics: The GIRs are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  revelatory enough to buy another by the same author (Susan Jeffers) titled Embracing Uncertainty. It claimed to offer "breakthrough methods for achieving ... in me. It is a space of gentleness, optimism, and unfamiliar trust

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015